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		<title>AOC on elitism and the environment</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2019/03/31/aoc-on-elitism-and-the-environment/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Mar 2019 17:05:50 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[@aoc; AOC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GND]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green New Deal]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Everybody in all the legislatures should say something like this every few minutes all day until this is settled.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Minnesota Energy: Decarbonize, locally produce</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/08/05/minnesota-energy-decarbonize-locally-produce/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Aug 2018 14:48:23 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Clean Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[electrification]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Minnesota]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The McKnight Foundation and GridLab contracted Vibrant Clean Energy, LLC, to prepare a report called Minnesota&#8217;s Smarter Grid: Pathways Towards a Clean, Reliable and Affordable Transportation and Energy System. Among other things, the report says: The study has shown that the economy in Minnesota can decarbonize by 80% (from 2005 levels) by 2050. All the &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/08/05/minnesota-energy-decarbonize-locally-produce/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Minnesota Energy: Decarbonize, locally produce</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>One step backwards for copper-nickel-sulfide mining in Minnesota&#8217;s Boundary Waters</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/07/24/one-step-backwards-for-copper-nickle-sulfide-mining-in-minnesotas-boundary-waters/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2018 20:13:57 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boundary Waters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Copper Mining]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Copper Sulfide Mining]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[polymet land swap]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I was just starting to think that every single thing that could go wrong in the effort to stop or limit destructive copper-nickel-sulfide mining in the fragile Boundary Waters ecosystem was going to go wrong. Then, suddenly, a reversal of fortune. This is complicated but for those not following, I&#8217;ll try to provide an explanation. &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/07/24/one-step-backwards-for-copper-nickle-sulfide-mining-in-minnesotas-boundary-waters/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">One step backwards for copper-nickel-sulfide mining in Minnesota&#8217;s Boundary Waters</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Is Fracking Bad For You?</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/03/19/is-fracking-bad-for-you/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2018 22:02:13 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health and Medicine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fracking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[If that is a question you have, the answer may be in the fifth and current edition (2018) of Compendium of Scientific, Medical, and Media Findings Demonstrating Risks and Harms of Fracking, by Concerned Health Professionals of NY. You can download it HERE. The report concludes that yes, Fracking is bad for you, and for &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/03/19/is-fracking-bad-for-you/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Is Fracking Bad For You?</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Dear Candidate For Office: About your environmental policy&#8230;</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/01/18/dear-candidate-office-environmental-policy/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jan 2018 16:02:47 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[candidates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DFL politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environmental Policy]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Over the last five months, and with increasing frequency, I find myself listening to candidates for office talk about their environmental policies. I&#8217;ve looked at the policies of candidates for Minnesota Governor, for US Congress in three different districts, and for Minnesota Senate and House in numerous districts. There is a lot of variation across &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/01/18/dear-candidate-office-environmental-policy/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Dear Candidate For Office: About your environmental policy&#8230;</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Trump Hates You, His Supporters, And Our Planet</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/03/29/trump-hates-you-his-supporters-and-our-planet/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Mar 2017 17:42:48 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[anti-science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EPA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Executive Order]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trump]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[A few items that I think you should see: Trump’s executive order puts the world on the road to climate catastrophe On Tuesday, President Donald Trump issued a sweeping executive order that effectively guts national efforts to address climate change. If he isn’t stopped, the endpoint of this approach is the ruination of our livable &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/03/29/trump-hates-you-his-supporters-and-our-planet/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Trump Hates You, His Supporters, And Our Planet</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Introduced Into The House: H.R.861 &#8211; To terminate the Environmental Protection Agency.</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/02/06/introduced-into-the-house-h-r-861-to-terminate-the-environmental-protection-agency/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2017 02:04:36 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environmental Protection Agency]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Representative Mat Gaetz (Republican, Florida) introduced HR 861, &#8220;To terminate the Environmental Protection Agency&#8221; which is said to defund and remove from existence the Environmental Protection Agency. Details are unclear, but the idea is to have states and local communities regulate their environmental pollution. The EPA centralizes research programs, policy guidance, and regulatory procedures. To &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/02/06/introduced-into-the-house-h-r-861-to-terminate-the-environmental-protection-agency/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Introduced Into The House: H.R.861 &#8211; To terminate the Environmental Protection Agency.</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>US House Votes Against Clean Water, Gives Big Oil Big Gift</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/02/02/us-house-votes-against-clean-water-gives-big-oil-big-gift/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2017 15:40:46 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Coal Waste]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[congress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dark Money]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Oil Money]]></category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=23636</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[Congressional Republicans, voting party line, will end an important provision protecting streams and rivers from coal waste, and a requirement that oil companies report payments to Foreign Governments. The former is blatant hippie punching anti environmental evil. The latter is a fully expected out come if you elect a Russian puppet president, and appoint a &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/02/02/us-house-votes-against-clean-water-gives-big-oil-big-gift/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">US House Votes Against Clean Water, Gives Big Oil Big Gift</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Natural Resources Committee Democrats Respond to Trump’s Advancement of the Keystone and Dakota Access Pipelines</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/01/25/natural-resources-committee-democrats-respond-to-trumps-advancement-of-the-keystone-and-dakota-access-pipelines/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2017 12:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Dakota Access]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Keystone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pipeline]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trump]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[This is a press release from the Natural Resources Committee Democrats, US House of Representatives concerning President Trump&#8217;s decision and actions to push ahead with two highly controversial petroleum pipeline projects. These projects had previously been stopped because they did not meet environmental standards, or because they violated tribal agreements. It is still quite possible &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/01/25/natural-resources-committee-democrats-respond-to-trumps-advancement-of-the-keystone-and-dakota-access-pipelines/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Natural Resources Committee Democrats Respond to Trump’s Advancement of the Keystone and Dakota Access Pipelines</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Trump&#8217;s orders = two steps back on climate change</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/01/24/trumps-orders-two-steps-back-on-climate-change/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2017 18:32:49 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Dakota Access]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Executive Order]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Warming]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pipeline]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The science is clear: Human caused global warming is happening and is serious. Building and expanding infrastructure to make it easier to burn fossil fuels is a very bad idea. The Keystone XL pipeline and the Dakota Access pipeline were two such projects, and in recent years, the environmental community, politicians, and others managed to &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/01/24/trumps-orders-two-steps-back-on-climate-change/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Trump&#8217;s orders = two steps back on climate change</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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